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Validation of an Administrative Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Index in a Veterans Health Affairs Cohort [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: VHA-CDW data from 2007-2020. The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date. Results: Overall, average age at OA diagnosis was 64.0 Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective Cohort using Cox proportional hazard models with time-dependent exposures and covariates.

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Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To develop and externally validate a simple risk score for influenza diagnosis based only on vaccination history and patient-reported symptoms. Study design and Analysis: Derivation of a risk score in one population and prospective external validation in a second population.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Alex: We are only on the fourth of 10. They ordered mild to hot. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here. What is your function? And do you die?

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